I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights

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Haidar Harmanani received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1989, 1991 and 1994, respectively.  He is currently a professor of computer science at the Lebanese American University, Byblos.  Dr. Harmanani has previously served as the chairperson of the department of computer science and mathematics from 2002 and until 2010 and as an Associate Dean from 2010 and until 2014.

Dr. Harmanani has served on the program committees of various international conferences, including the IEEE ISCAS Conference (2016), the IEEE NEWCAS Conference (NEWCAS 2006-2016), the ABET Symposium, 2012-2014, the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2007, the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, (ICECS 2000-2016), the 14th IEEE International Conference on Microelectronics, 2002, the ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, 2001, and the IEEE Design Automation and Test in Europe, 1998 (DATE 98). Dr. Harmanani was the General Chair of the 18th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS 2011) and the Technical Program Chair of the 6th International Design and Test Workshop (IDT 2011). Dr. Harmanani has been an ABET Program Evaluator (Computer Science and Computer Engineering) since 2009.

His research interests include electronic design automation, high-level synthesis, design for testability, and cluster parallel programming. He is a senior member of IEEE and a senior member of ACM.